Alexander C. Irvine Quotes

Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.

Alexander C. Irvine

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• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Guitar

• Some films shouldn't be remade.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Films
  • Some
  • Remade

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
  • Sobriety

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Africa

• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Butterfly
  • Dreaming

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Support
  • Sufficient
  • Store

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Know
  • Need
  • Hear